Anker Hostel Reviews

It is very much a hotel with budget dormitory style rooms. It is ok and good value for Oslo for a safe and clean place to sleep at night.

Norway is notorious for being pricey, so this was a good value but the location is not ideal. I'm from LA so I'm used to city life and the negative sides of it, but I did not feel safe at all walking around alone at night to and from the hostel. The train station and its surrounding areas are not particularly nice. Thankfully the tram stops right outside their door practically. The hostel itself was just dandy though and if I had to stay in a hostel in Oslo again I would stay here.

The hostel itself conjured up images of military barracks. There was nothing especially wrong with the rooms, they were cleanish but the kitchenette was poorly equipped and the staff are disinterested - if you don't like dealing with people, you're in the wrong field. The area felt sketchy. Overall, Anker is darn expensive for a truly unremarkable experience.

The area that is located is a bit weird. You have to pay to use the things on the kitchen (that is in the room).

Management and Staff knows they will always have people booking this hostel because there is not much to choose in Oslo. so they put little or no effort to give travellers a good time. you pay for everything. no atmosphere whatsoever. they could learn 2 or 3 things with Lisbon Hostels.

Very clean and confortable. Very near to the sea and Reykjavik Main Street.

Rude to charge for linen and leaves a bad taste in the mouth, should just add the price to the full price of the rooms

Appreciated the 24-hr staffed reception in the winter. Only hostel that did this. Not a fan of the separate kitchens in each dorm but I guess with the volume of people they have it wouldn't be feasible to do a single kitchen. The dorm I stayed in didn't have a waste bin. I'm not very tall and even I kept hitting my head on the upper bunk. The lobby constantly played really good music

Nice spacy rooms with kitchen in every room. Kitchen tools can be rented for free for a deposit of 100 nok. Wifi only in the lobby and no computers. Quite quiet at night, but quite central, too. A little expensive, but you do not really have an alternative in this city. Oslo is quite an ugly city, so we porbably won't come back, but if we were doing so, we would stay here.

Nice hostel, located downtown, close to the railway station.

Good stay overall. Friendly staff, but for the price, should include linens and wifi should work in the rooms.

Cheap and nice place!

No place to lock belongings in room. The location was pretty good (5 min walk to downtown). You have to pay for your own sheets, but 50 NOK is practically free for Norway. The lobby had some unsavoury characters who kept creeping out some of the other guets.

Very convenient location, nice atmosphere, polite and helpful staff.

Avoid it! Overall lack of any decent services. Hidden fees everywhere: you pay extra for bed linen (sleeping bags not allowed) and cooking utensils, once there's nothing in the small kitchen cupboard inside the room where you have to cook. There's no real kitchen! There's no lockers and no wifi in the rooms, and the common area (the lobby) is the only spot you can have some. Generally unclean. Unsafe sketchy quarter. Pickpockets likely even in the lobby. Sarcastic ignorant staff. Messy beds.

Unbelievably expensive for what you get. I've paid half what I paid in other Norwegian cities and stayed in much nicer hostels. The 'common area' is an absolute joke as is the WIFI. The rooms are comfortable, more powerpoints next to beds would be nice. There is no life at this hostel. People just sit there on their computers in the lobby because it is the only place where the internet is. The ONLY positive thing about Anker Hostel is the proximity to central Oslo. Avoid it if you can afford it

We didn´t really get information which facilities would be included - just little "kitchen" included in the sleeping room - it is located in the "east" and about 15 minutes to walk to the railway station - to sum up, for one or two nights, okay to stay there.

Not the best hostel I have stayed in, rooms smelled, the only lockers they had were really small ones in the lobby. They had a kitchen in the room, which was the best part. Common area wasn't bad.

It's shame to pay for getting bed sheets and it's unormal that slepping bags are not allowed. Besides, I think it could be good to have dishes in each room. Very good staff

Location in relation to the city centre was good however we did not feel that the area it was in was safe at all, especially at night time. only some of the staff were helpful others were quite ignorant. the rooms were basic and sheets had to be paid for which was not previously mentioned before we arrived.